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‘Round the Square: Politics and religion
News, Round the Square
Apr 29, 2025
DON’T: We’re always told that two topics to stay away from in polite company are politics and religion. In 2022, the Pew Research Center assembled som...
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Other Voices: Our one last chance
Letters to Editor, Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 29, 2024
I believe in this election God is giving us one last chance to come to him before more judgments fall on us. Throughout the Bible, God has used a faul...
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Want economic mobility? Make friends at church
Opinion, Сolumns
CYNTHIA M. ALLEN Tribune News Service 
Aug 08, 2022
FORT WORTH, Texas — The never-ending quest to understand why some people are more easily able than others to achieve the American Dream has a new, int...
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RTS – Hellbenders
News, PA State News, Round the Square
May 23, 2022
HELLBENDERS: May God have mercy on your soul if you ever find yourself face to face with… the HELLBENDER! Nah, they are harmless. Unfortunately, due t...
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True gift of Christmas
Opinion, Сolumns
KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ 
Dec 27, 2021
Christmas is a season, not just a day. And it only begins on Dec. 25. The Rockefeller Center tree and elves on shelves and all the rest can be deceivi...
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Radical gifts of the saints
Opinion, Сolumns
KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ 
Jun 01, 2021
“If a mother can kill her own child, what is there to stop others from killing one another?” Well, I guess those are fighting words today. But the spe...
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You got to pray just to make it today
Opinion, Сolumns
KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ 
May 14, 2021
President Joseph Biden mentions his Catholic faith frequently. We’ve heard him cite both Pope and Saint Francis. At his inauguration, he ran through a...
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Christmas sermons offer messages of rejoicing, love
Local News, Online Features
CHRISTINE HOLTZ erachristineh@gmail.com 
Dec 24, 2020
Attending church services on or around Christmas is a tradition held by many families. The Era reached out to several local area churches to see what ...
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The year of St. Joe
Opinion, Сolumns
KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ 
Dec 22, 2020
This is the year of Joe. Not Biden. But the main man in the Nativity scene nearest you (since Jesus is but a baby, albeit divine). Pope Francis delive...
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Hatcher named interim pastor at Open Arms
Local News
RUTH BOGDAN r.bogdan@bradfordera.com 
Jan 04, 2020
After nearly 17 years at Open Arms Community Church, Pastor Mike McAvoy is leaving after accepting a position as superintendent of the Southeast Regio...
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‘Round the Square –– 1/1/2019
News, Round the Square
Jan 02, 2019
RESOLUTIONS: It’s Jan. 2. Are you still following your New Year’s resolutions? The practice of making resolutions is thousands of years old, though it...
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